When last we checked in on the Houston Texans' quarterback situation, Ryan Mallett was saying he'd love to be back with the team, a week after head coach Bill O'Brien and general manager Rick Smith said at the combine they hoped to re-sign Mallett. ...

Several Houston Texans players and head coach Bill O'Brien attended an event Wednesday at Texas Children's Hospital, visiting with children as the team announced a seven-year partnership for the hospital to become the team's official hospital. Sev...

Reading the coverage of the Houston Texans ... Texans coach Bill O'Brien has made no secret during his time here in Houston that he has great affection for the players he coached at Penn State. Patrick D. Starr of StateoftheTexans.com takes a look...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Not if the Texans can help it. Yesterday, Texans general manager Rick Smith and coach Bill O'Brien made clear their hope that Mallett returns to the Texans next season. That public push was matched internally. The buzz here i...

Georgia will play North Carolina to open the 2016 season and Ole Miss will face Cal in 2017 and 2019, but what you're really after is more SEC-related news from the NFL scouting combine, right? Houston Texans coach Bill O'Brien isn't sure whether...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Coach Bill O'Brien and general manager Rick Smith met with the media Thursday at the NFL combine. Here's what we learned about the Houston Texans: Clowney has done right things: Smith talked a lot about being proud of various play...

INDIANAPOLIS -- In a draft class that wasn't especially productive, one of the most useful players the Houston Texans selected last season was running back Alfred Blue. Blue was a sixth-round pick out of LSU, joining an armada of rookies out of LS...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The question of Andre Johnson's future with the Houston Texans will harass the organization until it's resolved in some sort of permanent fashion. Johnson heads into next season, in which he'll be 34, with a monstrous cap number of $1...

BRADENTON, Fla. -- The kid who seemingly was born to play at Penn State almost escaped to the University of Pittsburgh. It was 2012 and Penn State didn't look like Penn State anymore. Linebacker Mike Hull visited Pittsburgh and was ready to transf...

This week and next week, we'll review 10 plays that shaped the Texans' 2014 season. The list is J.J. Watt-heavy, starting with this one. J.J. Watt's first touchdown catch Under the previous coaching staff, Watt lobbied. He practiced the one-...

HOUSTON -- The Houston Texans fired offensive line coach Paul Dunn after one season with the team, as first reported by Mark Berman of Houston's Fox 26 and John McClain of the Houston Chronicle. Texans coach Bill O'Brien hired Dunn to replace John...